Re: [PATCH 1/1] memblock cleanup: Remove unnecessary check inmemblock_find_in_range_node()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Aug 14 2013 - 23:27:56 EST


Hello, Tang.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:23:19AM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> Furthermore, we don't need to check "if (this_end < size)" actually. Without
> this confusing check, we only waste some loops. So this patch removes the
> check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memblock.c | 3 ---
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> index a847bfe..e0c626e 100644
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -114,9 +114,6 @@ phys_addr_t __init_memblock memblock_find_in_range_node(phys_addr_t start,
> this_start = clamp(this_start, start, end);
> this_end = clamp(this_end, start, end);
>
> - if (this_end < size)
> - continue;
> -
> cand = round_down(this_end - size, align);
> if (cand >= this_start)
> return cand;

Hmmm... maybe I'm missing something but are you sure? "this_end -
size" can underflow and "cand >= this_start" will be true incorrectly.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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